NTEU has always had a free education policy consistent with Education International (EI) policy that all public education should be tuition fee free. This motion, however, positions the NTEU to advocate for a very real change in government policy. A change that challenges the reliance upon student tuition fees as the major component of university funding; from the contributions of Commonwealth Supported Place holders, to the deregulated fees in most coursework postgraduate programs to the income from the massive international student ‘market’. More...